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    9 months ago

    I’m totally not a huge Biden fan, but I wouldn’t say his chances don’t look good… He’s still a better option from a centrist/objective perspective than trump is… Biden can rationally be expected to do what he’s done his entire term, not a whole lot. Trump on the other hand, will do a whole lot, and it’ll be a mixed bag predominately identifiable as chaos, also because that’s what his track record shows.

    The reasoning behind the decision voters made in 2020 has not really changed much in either case… It’s the same decision process. The only real question is what demographics show up at the polls. If it’s the same demographics it’s likely to be the same outcome.

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      9 months ago

      The point of the story isn’t that Biden is the only sane choice. The point is that if the election were held today, we would probably be looking at a Donald Trump presidency. This is not being treated as a major problem, which means is just perceived as politics as usual by most Americans. I’m not

      The US and the world will not be the same.

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      9 months ago

      I would only disagree that Biden hasn’t accomplished much. He’s had some key wins and his handling of the economy - well how much actual control a president has is debatable, but he at least didn’t fuck up the inflation soft landing. One of his wins pissed the right off so much they fucked up the whole House in a tantrum. We could do a lot worse than Biden, though it’d be great to do better.

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        Lol… The Biden administration has done well, I was being very specific to Biden himself… He’s not in any way engaged whatsoever.

        As far as doing worse, trumps “micromanage via Twitter” philosophy was definitely worse… Not even talking policy or anything, just the leadership style. I’ll take a guy phoning shit in over a micromanager any day of the week. Phoning it in isn’t great, but micromanagers are hell…

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    9 months ago

    Plenty of plan B’s. I’d take Gavin Newsom over Biden. Shit, I’d take Jerry Brown over Biden.

    “You think 81 is too old to run for President? Fuck you, here’s an 86 year old!”

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    9 months ago

    Their plan B is the same as their plan A, to lose. And instead of liberals demanding their party offer another solution they demand everyone else support the DNC hand picked genocidal pedo. And instead of facing that reality they downvote the truth like this post and keep their heads in the sand. When he loses, and he will, they will blame everyone and everything but their own hubris

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      9 months ago

      Maybe the downvotes are because what you say is stupid and wrong? Like, have you ever considered you’re wrong? Or are you so certain that you’re right and everyone is out to get you?

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        the GOP never hates on their base

        What are you talking about, the GOP has driven out everyone who won’t support Trump, some of them got literal death threats after years of loyal support. Even his primary opponents are afraid to criticize him.

        Democrats don’t “hate their base”, you’re just whining because they didn’t nominate your favorite candidate.

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            In the process they intentionally drove out anyone in their base who would not support Trump, including people who like Liz Cheney.

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                9 months ago

                Glad we agree that Republicans do in fact hate on their base.

                Democrats won the popular vote in 7 out of 8 of the last presidential elections, despite constant doom and gloom over polls from PUMAs and their equivalents.

                Biden himself was predicted to lose his 2020 primary and suffer a 2022 Red Wave. So I’m not particularly worried about 2024.